Liability examples are listed below: Credit Debt (Visa, MasterCard, department store charge cards) Installment Debt (bank loans, auto loans, boat loans, etc) Real estate loans Pledges, personnel notes, etc.

All the debts of the company. Also, it is the balance after the stockholder's equity (or claim of ownership) is deducted from the company's Total Assets.

is the total amount owed as of a certain date. Try not to confuse liabilities with expenses. Expenses are the costs of doing business, while liabilities are accrued expenses - expenses that have added up over time. For example, a mortgage balance is a liability, but monthly mortgage payments are expenses. Expenses show up on an Income Statement while liabilities show up on a Balance Sheet.

This is the sum of all current and long term liabilities reported.

The liabilities found by adding current liabilities to long-term debts

Total current liabilities plus long-term debt and deferred income taxes.

All short and long term obligations expected to be satisfied by the company. It includes current liabilities, long term debt, provision for risk and charges (non-US corporations), deferred taxes, deferred income, other liabilities, etc, and excludes minority interest, preferred stock equity, common stock equity, non-equity reserves.

This is the amount of debt that a company owns on its assets.